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C. F. RANDALL.

WOVEN BELT 0R CARRIER. APPLICATION FILED saw. 301' 191's.

Patented Dec. 10, 1918.

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WOVEN BELT 0R CARRIER.

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Patented Dec. 10, 1918.

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To aZZ whomz't may concern: I Be it known that I, OnAnnns F. RANDALL, acitizen of a the United States, residing at Boston, in the countyof Suffolk, State'of Massachusetts, have invented a certain "new and useful Improvement in Woven Belts orCarriers','of whichthe following is a specification, reference being had therein tothe accompanying drawings.

The invention has relation to Woven belts or carriers on the order of those forming part of military equipment. Y 7

It is customary to suspend'various articles of equipment from a belt or carrier by means of "suspensory devices, usually socalled hangers, having hooks or the llke engaging portions,usually of wire, which are engaged in eyelets or the like in connection with the belt or carrier. The general object 7 of the invention is to provide in connection with a belt or carrler convenlent' means to cover and shield the said engaging portions or hooks of the suspensory devices or hangers at the rear of the said eyelets or the like.

The invention consists, essentially, in a woven belt or carrier formed with a plurality of separable divisions, with the eyelets or the like which receive the suspensory devices or hanger-hooks of equipment provided in an intermediate division, and with covering or guarddivisions at both sides of said intermediate division, adapted to cover and shield the suspensory device or hanger at both the front and the rear thereof.

An illustrative embodiment of the invention is shown in the drawings, in which latter,'

Figure 1 is an isometric of a portion of a pocketed belt or carrier contalnlng sa d em-' bodiment.

Fig. 2 is a view of the said belt or carrier in vertical cross-section between pockets thereof, illustrating the said embodiment.

Fig. 3 is a bottom view of a portion of the said belt or carrier, also illustrating the invention.

Fig. 4- is a view showing a hanger separately. V

The belt or carrier that isshown in part in the drawings is a pocketed carrier of the same general description as that shown and described in U. S. Letters Patent for woven carrier, No. 1,210,377, granted under date of Dec. 26, 1916, upon the application of V. H. Jennings. As in the caseof the belt or car= wovniv BELT on osRRIEiz.

l Specification of Letters liatent. x Patent d D Applicationii1ed'Septeinlier30,1918. Serial No. 256,185.

rier of the said 'patentyit-has the 'laterallyextendingweb 1 thereoff'externally of the (and side walls of a pocket, enabling th closed end ofthe pocket to conform more fully to tlielcontour of the lower portion of the pocket-contents.

' Patent No. 1,210,377 showstwo divisions only, corresponding with the divisions 3 and 4 of the accompanying drawings, respectively constituting direct continuations of the front and back of thepocket, and *movable therewith apart from each other, with the eyelets 5, 5, set in the rear division 3. Consequently when the hooks 6, 6, of the hangers are engaged in such eyelets portions of the saidhooks will be exposed at the back 7 of division In ts illustrated embodiment the present .invention IS in a measure an improvement upon the pocketed carrier of the said patent.

The object of the present invention is shown in the drawings hereof as secured by means of a third division, at, which is woven upon the belt or carrier so that it occupies a position behind division 3. This division is made separable from division 3 to an extent suflicient to permit the hangers, or other suspensory devices that may be employed, to be hooked into the eyelets or unhooked therefrom. The division 0; may be in the form of a simple supplemental web joining along its top with another portion or por-.

tions of the belt or carrier. Preferably, though not necessarily supplemental web will be united or attached in its lower portion or across its width to the belt or carrier intermediate the eyelets, as indicated in Figs. 1 and 3, so as to keep such web normally close to the division 8.

It will be perceived that the supplemental web constituting the division a will shield and cover at the back of the belt or carrier the top portions of the hangers which are in all cases, the said I said portions thus shielded and covered, at

the back; t the front shielded and covered-by th d-i VisiOn 4, the gp b tions will be completely inclosed.

The invention is not restricted 'n all" cases to embodiment in belts or carriers having the pockets thereof formed with bellowsbottoms.

What is claimed as the invention is z' 1 A belt, or carrier wo-ven with a plurality of separable; divisions, with the eye lets or the like which receive the suspensory devices or hanger-hooks of equipment pro vided in one of said-divisions,'a nd with another of said divisions; constituting a covering' or guard division at the rear otsaid eyelets orthe 1ike. I c 4 1 V- [2. A belt or carrier Woven With a pinrality. of separable divisions, with the eyelets or the likewhichreceive the suspensory I devicesor hanger-hooks of. equipment; pro-- vided :in an intermediate division, and with jp m ,0: its egettea' 'ea ste l-ted covering 01' gnard divisions at both sides of the said intermediate division, adapted to cover and shield the tops of thesuspensory device or hanger at" both the-front and the rear of the latter. 1

3. A Woven pocketed carrier having the ilaterall y -e;;tending eb thereof divided in thicknesslaterally alongside the bottom of the pocket into more-than two divisions, two

thereof respectivelyconstituting direct continuations of the front and back of the pocket and movable, therewith apart from each "other, and an intermediate division furnished Withthe eyelet-or the like device Which receives the suspensory device of otherequipment'. 7 1 a In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses. 1

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